The Necropolis by P. J. Hoover

Author:P. J. Hoover [Hoover, P. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Fantasy, Fiction, Mythology, Science Fiction, Time Travel, Young Adult
Publisher: CBAY Books
Published: 2014-03-25T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

Benjamin Takes a Detour

Nobody attempted to go after Nathan and Phoebe. To be fair, Benjamin did at least think about it. But even if he’d decided it was the right thing to do, he felt like he’d have trouble levitating a feather.

“Are you okay?” Cory helped Benjamin sit up.

“Yeah, I’m fine,” Benjamin lied. The throbbing in his head matched the sounds of the earth above. “You guys made it here just in time. Nathan was just about to kill me.”

“Kill you!” Heidi came closer.

Benjamin noticed she didn’t squat down next to him. She actually didn’t even get within touching range, which was probably a good thing because Benjamin was so happy to see her, he felt like grabbing her and hugging her—at the very least.

“What about that girl?” Joey said. It was serious Joey talking, not fun, mischievous Joey. “Is she in danger? Should we worry about her?”

Benjamin shook his head. “No. Nathan’s planning to marry her, not kill her.”

Cory’s eyes bore into Benjamin. “Was that who I think it was, little brother?”

Benjamin nodded.

“She’s a member of the ruling family,” Joey said. “I’ve seen her in the last few months of surveillance.”

Benjamin nodded. “She is a member of the ruling family. And she’s also our sister.”

“The third of the triplets,” Cory finished. “And on the wrong side just like the oracle said.”

“And now the shields are down,” Heidi said.

Joey crossed his arms over his chest. “The shields couldn’t stay up forever. We knew that. Now we just deal with it.”

“Which leads us to our whole reason for being in Atlantis in the first place,” Cory said.

“Which is what?” Benjamin asked. He still had no clue what Joey and Cory were doing there.

“To take over the government, of course,” Joey said.

Heidi raised an eyebrow. “You took over Atlantis? Just you two?”

Joey brushed back his hair behind his ears. “Caelus and Gaea never planned to stay there for long. We only sped up the process. They’ve been moving stuff out for the last couple months.”

Benjamin studied them. “Let me get this straight. If you two took over Atlantis, then who’s there right now?”

Joey looked at Benjamin like he’d just fallen out of an alien space ship. “Helios and Selene, of course,” he said. “Who do you think masterminded the whole thing?”

“They did?” Benjamin said.

Cory shrugged. “Sure. Do you think the two of us planned to take over an entire continent for ourselves?”

“It would be pretty cool,” Joey said. “It could be like our own little amusement park.”

They laughed, and Heidi sighed deeply for effect.

“What?” Cory said.

“Aren’t you making sort of light of it?” Heidi asked. “I mean isn’t government upheaval a pretty big thing?”

“Well, of course,” Joey said. “And we’ve been working and planning for months now.”

The ceiling above them shuddered again, which silenced their conversation immediately. It sounded like the entire earth was going to fall down on top of them.

“Maybe we should get out of here,” Heidi said when the grumbling sounds took a break.

Benjamin stood up, and even though he figured his legs would collapse under him, they managed to hold him.

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